Formed: 1970
From:
Chicago,
IL,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Pentagram Interviews and Features
Below are our features and interviews with Pentagram.
Feature
Five Bands I’m Excited To See At Mystic Festival
Mystic Festival is just around the corner and I’m getting hyped. This will be my fourth year in a row attending this underrated and severely overlooked metal festival that takes place in the northern port city of Gdansk, Poland. If you’re not familiar with this festival, do a quick Google search and read for yourself why this festival needs to be mentioned alongside the summer heavyweights like Brutal Assault, Wacken, Hellfest and Download. Mystic festival may not have the eye popping number of attendees and sheer amount of bands as those aforementioned festivals, but in just about every other comparison, Mystic Festival either holds its ground or just dominates those festivals.
Are you curious now? Did I get your attention?
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To say I’m excited to start my journey to Gdansk is an understatement. Now it’s time to name my top 5 bands I’m most looking forward to seeing at this year’s festival (in no particular order…). More...
Interview
Pentagram Guitarist Talks "Curious Volume" Album
Pentagram could be viewed as Black Sabbath’s next of kin. The band formed in 1971 just two years after the birth of Sabbath. Sure, bands like Trouble and Saint Vitus made their mark on the doom scene, but Pentagram came first. Perhaps these other bands are considered fathers of the doom genre along with Pentagram because the doom scene didn’t really take off until the ‘80s. It was the mid-eighties when Pentagram released its self-titled debut. Two years later the band released another classic full-length recording “Day of Reckoning.”
In 2012 the documentary “Last Days Here” chronicled the band's ups and downs and put the group in the public light like never before. And now, 44 years after their formation, the band has released its ninth studio full-length “Curious Volume.” Said album revisits the doomy sound the band is known for but with a greater emphasis on hard rock. Longtime guitarist Victor Griffin spoke with me on the phone about the making of this album, the band’s influence on the doom scene, the impact of “Last Days Here” and many more topics. More...